NOTE TO THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.) WITH DRAFT OF A TELEGRAM TO V. S. MICKIEWICZ-KAPSUKAS[2]

Written:Written on August 20, 1920Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth, Ed., Vol. 54.

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Ipropose replying:

Thepresent moment is definitely unsuitable, while we
are retreating from Warsaw. Send the most detailed andexact information about Lithuania over the signature of
all the members of the Lithuanian-Byelorussian Central
Committee and Smilga’s opinion. But continue the
preparatory work more cautiously and systematically.

Thereis agreement from three members of thePolitical
Bureau.[1]

[1]Thissentence, the signature and the words “on behalf of the
Politbureau, Krestinsky” were written by Lenin after receiving the
agreement of the members of the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.),
—Ed.

[2]Writtenbelow the text of the copy of a telegram sent to Lenin
from Vilno on August 19, 1920, by V. S. Mickiewicz-Kapsukas,
a member of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian-Byelorussian
Communist Party. He reported that revolutionary feeling in
Lithuania was rising and “by the day of our departure from Vilno,
it may end in a mass armed uprising against the Lithuanian
whiteguards”, =

and asked: “Do you find it possible for us to prepare for
a decisive battle?”

Onthe same copy Lenin wrote to Trotsky: “Comrade Trotsky,
if you agree, send it off or return it to me for coding.Lenin.”
On the document there is also a note by Lenin: “Stalinagrees”,
and Trotsky’s mark indicating his agreement.